i've paid for brotato (Its a pretty good game, it was worth my money) and played city skylines (which i haven't paid for due to its excessive amount of dlcs)

They gave away Death Stranding awhile ago, and I hear that one is good, which I don't dispute given its Kojima origins.

But Kojima games require me to be in a very specific mood and I have been trying to work my way up to it.

if you genuinely think "All politics is based on violence " please do not participate in political discussions

Did you read the words immediately following the part you quoted?

while true i think it's extremely unlikely to be suspicious of a light bulb. especially if it doesn't seem out of place, like if it's on a light socket why think that it's an wifi access point?

I've once had the displeasure of having to interact Turkish customs because I got a merch kit from Intel, since it was under 30 Euros (nowadays simplified customs declaration isn't even a thing you have to go the same way as a commercial importer does,which you appear to have gone through, bribery seems to be expected) I didn't deal with Turkish customs directly but the fact that that I had to pay 60% of its value still annoys me to this day. I've also had to decline a second merch kit later because they removed the entire simplified customs declaration thing. I'm also currently trying to obtain SDR which it's market seems to be practically nuked, because of this customs shenanigans

Baofeng's are not shortwave radios afaik

yes. it's a good choice for light use in UHF/VHF scenarios even communicating to satellites if you have a Yagi antenna.

1w is usually okay and using 8w from a phone is probably way too much power demand

I largely agree and want to add more,I also think the lack of standards also will effect it's usability in a real shtf scenario. why should I use meshstastic over meshcore for example. I also don't think lora will be in my mind in that kind of scenario.

its also a branch of government that always need research so government contracts are plentiful

being able to not care about GPL compliance, that's about it for me